allocare

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Care given to an infant by an animal that is not the infant's parent.

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"Older offspring can either provide allocare for siblings, which is in the mother's interest, or try to find a breeding position in another group, which may be even more costly to them than helping their mother (e.g., saddle-back tamarin, Saguinus fuscicollis, Goldizen et al. 1996)."

From allo- + care.

allocaretaker allocaretaking

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